Looks like a typical GNOME program using a horribly outdated GTK+ engine. Of course, GTK+ does not belong on Windows (or anywhere in my opinion), so that's why it looks so ugly.
Are you telling me that I'm not allowed to teabag those 13 year old whiny kids in Halo 2? Why the fuck are they playing a mature (17+) game then? Same goes for Second Life; you have to be 18 to register. There's a teen version of the game, but this didn't happen there.
Do you think it's fair that copyright lasts for infinity - 1 years? I don't. Hence, I have no problem with copyright infringement of materials older than 14 years since that was the original length of copyright. I also have no problem with paying to go to a performance of something that is older than 14 years because it's something new: another live performance.
This is where the service industry kicks in. Companies like Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sun, Canonical, Linspire, MySQL AB, etc., all make money from free software (typically gratis as well), and companies like Blizzard, Linden Labs, Microsoft, etc., make plenty of money from providing an online gaming service.
Why am I going to bust my ass writing some musical materpiece when 5 minutes after it's finished every asshat on the internet has his own copy of it? Maybe you want people to know about you so that they'll come to your concerts. Or maybe someone will hire you to write music for something. Perhaps you just enjoy writing and performing music that money is just an afterthought?
Money may be the root of all evil, but evil is not the root of all people...
I pay the theatre to use their facilities to view a movie. I pay my ISP for the bandwidth in order to download said movie. And in the case of the bartender, I pay him for my drinks (a physical item) and a tip for his services. It's not like every time I ever drink some liqueur I have to pay the same bartender for that one time he mixed my martini.
Maybe the fact that he is from California, and the fact that Hollywood is in California has something to do with it rather than his party alignment? Nah, we don't like logical reasons for corruption around here; all politicians are the same fucking douchebags with the same goal of fucking over their constituents, right?
Viruses and spyware wouldn't have been a problem if you were using anything other than Windows, but you decided to go the babysitting route and treated your employees like children? What are you doing on Slashdot, good sir?
I don't know about others, but when I write game reviews (typically on sites like GameFAQs or GameSpot), my "overall score" is not an average of all the other scores. For instance, sometimes a game just feels like a 10/10, but perhaps the graphics aren't as good as other games that came out around the same time for the same system.
For game reviews, your best bets are GameFAQs (user-submitted reviews) and GameSpot (they rate everything horribly; nobody gets special treatment by the reviewers there). Add.com to their names for their respective websites.
Millions of people have experienced DRM and are most likely annoyed by it. Ever watched a DVD with unskippable adverts? Or unskippable anything? This is due to the DRM in DVDs. People know what DRM is like, but they don't know what it's called.
Not making your website accessible to disabled people is discriminatory and therefore illegal. It's analogous to a situation where you owned a store but didn't allow black people to shop there. I mean, you're the shop owner, so you should be able to make arbitrary decisions on who's allowed to shop there, right? Who cares about black people? They only make up a small percentage of the population, so by denying them service, I save money from potential theft of my VCRs, right?
It's fucking discrimination; don't sugar-coat it with the "they don't have to blah blah" Libertarian bullshit. Sometimes the government needs to provide the incentive (e.g., via fines or taxes) that would otherwise cost the company more money to fix the problem than to ignore it. Example situations of where this is necessary include environmentally toxic practises, discriminatory practises, employee abuse, etc. The "free market" can't correct these sorts of problems, so sometimes we need to step and fix them.
WHATWG is very similar to W3C as it is comprised of a very similar list of member organisations, although they have more of a focus on making standards that people will actually use (and web browsers will implement) rather than wasting time on a dead standard like XHTML 2. They are also far more open about their standards processes and allow non-members to give their own opinions to the people writing and editting the standard.
So, WHATWG is just as valid of a standards organisation that Microsoft should be following as the W3C (of which they are a member ironically), ISO, IEC, ECMA (even though they pretty much rubberstamp Microsoft's standards they push through), IETF, IEEE, ANSI, etc.
Safari (probably a nightly version though) and Konqueror (started in 3.5.something) both also pass the Acid2 test, and Firefox 3.0 will also pass the test. I believe Opera was the first to pass it (or at least pass it in a non-beta release), however.
I've got a Wii, and via my observations, Opera on Wii renders the same as Opera on Windows, OS X, Linux, et al. Opera for phones, however, optimises the markup (via a proxy from Opera), images, and such, for small devices. You can see this in action via Opera for Windows, OS X, Linux, et al. Despite the differences, they are both powered by Opera's Presto renderring engine.
Microsoft is a bit different in this regard because they seem to reinvent IE for any platform they make a version of it for; my guess would be that it's tied so deeply to the operating system that it makes more sense to make a completely new version than to upgrade an existing one.
In contrast, KDE (KHTML) and Apple (WebKit) also have a renderring engine that is used in both desktops (Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS X, etc.) and mobile devices (iPhone, many Nokia phones, others), and although it might not do as much (if at all) as Opera does in the case of modifying the markup to be better for small screens, it does a great job as well in parsing the markup and displaying it properly.
And for information parity, Mozilla's Gecko renderring engine is also being worked on for a mobile device web browser called Minimo, and although it's still pretty much alpha softwore, it's chugging along smoothly. The only thing I can complain about with it so far is that it's only for the latest version of Windows CE (or you can use it with Linux if you can install Linux on your PDA/smart phone if it doesn't already run Linux), and the only PDA I have is an old Toshiba e335 with PocketPC 2002, and I can't even install Linux on it.:(
Very nice list; how about another list that details the annoyances and horrible attributes of web browsers? If we were to supercede the web browser for some new web platform that includes all the good things you mentioned, I can think of at least one thing that should definitely be included: standards compliance or bust. Make it so that an invalid page fails to parse and display so that web developers and designers can learn to code properly. XHTML/HTML and CSS (much less in magnitude, however) are the most bastardised standards I can think of, but when it comes to similar XML-based standards (in the case of XHTML), we don't have programs that accept invalid markup for: SVG, MathML, ODF, RSS, Atom, RDF, other metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core), and pretty much every other XML-based standard. It seems as though web developers can follow standards and use semantic markup when it comes to their news feeds in RSS or Atom, but when it comes to the web page itself, we get tag soup, invalid markup, and hacks upon hacks to try and make XHTML/CSS a page layout or typesetting program.
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Music? SMB, on the other hand...
I'm sorry, but your comment is offtopic here. The Debian mailing lists are that way ->
Hmm, Kopete is only 761 kB (the executable with shared libraries ;). That's not good if Gaim^WPidgin uses that much space...
Looks like a typical GNOME program using a horribly outdated GTK+ engine. Of course, GTK+ does not belong on Windows (or anywhere in my opinion), so that's why it looks so ugly.
But you didn't cover the possibilities of inventions being even greater than that in the future.
Gotta think logically...
So put pi, e, or some other transcendental number in 128-bit floating point notation, and use that resulting number as the key. Simple, no?
Funny? Yes. Insightful? Definitely. Apple should be using mod_mime_magic anyhow so this wouldn't be a problem, but they don't...
Are you telling me that I'm not allowed to teabag those 13 year old whiny kids in Halo 2? Why the fuck are they playing a mature (17+) game then? Same goes for Second Life; you have to be 18 to register. There's a teen version of the game, but this didn't happen there.
Do you think it's fair that copyright lasts for infinity - 1 years? I don't. Hence, I have no problem with copyright infringement of materials older than 14 years since that was the original length of copyright. I also have no problem with paying to go to a performance of something that is older than 14 years because it's something new: another live performance.
This is where the service industry kicks in. Companies like Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sun, Canonical, Linspire, MySQL AB, etc., all make money from free software (typically gratis as well), and companies like Blizzard, Linden Labs, Microsoft, etc., make plenty of money from providing an online gaming service.
Think outside the box next time.
Money may be the root of all evil, but evil is not the root of all people...
I pay the theatre to use their facilities to view a movie. I pay my ISP for the bandwidth in order to download said movie. And in the case of the bartender, I pay him for my drinks (a physical item) and a tip for his services. It's not like every time I ever drink some liqueur I have to pay the same bartender for that one time he mixed my martini.
Maybe the fact that he is from California, and the fact that Hollywood is in California has something to do with it rather than his party alignment? Nah, we don't like logical reasons for corruption around here; all politicians are the same fucking douchebags with the same goal of fucking over their constituents, right?
Viruses and spyware wouldn't have been a problem if you were using anything other than Windows, but you decided to go the babysitting route and treated your employees like children? What are you doing on Slashdot, good sir?
I don't know about others, but when I write game reviews (typically on sites like GameFAQs or GameSpot), my "overall score" is not an average of all the other scores. For instance, sometimes a game just feels like a 10/10, but perhaps the graphics aren't as good as other games that came out around the same time for the same system.
Do you perchance write for Mad Magazine?
For game reviews, your best bets are GameFAQs (user-submitted reviews) and GameSpot (they rate everything horribly; nobody gets special treatment by the reviewers there). Add .com to their names for their respective websites.
Millions of people have experienced DRM and are most likely annoyed by it. Ever watched a DVD with unskippable adverts? Or unskippable anything? This is due to the DRM in DVDs. People know what DRM is like, but they don't know what it's called.
Someone's computer had to come up with it randomly or else it wouldn't be secure for encryption...
Your stuff is in 3:4? I think that's broken if you ask me; you'd want 4:3, 16:9, and 2.35:1 primarily
Not making your website accessible to disabled people is discriminatory and therefore illegal. It's analogous to a situation where you owned a store but didn't allow black people to shop there. I mean, you're the shop owner, so you should be able to make arbitrary decisions on who's allowed to shop there, right? Who cares about black people? They only make up a small percentage of the population, so by denying them service, I save money from potential theft of my VCRs, right?
It's fucking discrimination; don't sugar-coat it with the "they don't have to blah blah" Libertarian bullshit. Sometimes the government needs to provide the incentive (e.g., via fines or taxes) that would otherwise cost the company more money to fix the problem than to ignore it. Example situations of where this is necessary include environmentally toxic practises, discriminatory practises, employee abuse, etc. The "free market" can't correct these sorts of problems, so sometimes we need to step and fix them.
WHATWG is very similar to W3C as it is comprised of a very similar list of member organisations, although they have more of a focus on making standards that people will actually use (and web browsers will implement) rather than wasting time on a dead standard like XHTML 2. They are also far more open about their standards processes and allow non-members to give their own opinions to the people writing and editting the standard.
So, WHATWG is just as valid of a standards organisation that Microsoft should be following as the W3C (of which they are a member ironically), ISO, IEC, ECMA (even though they pretty much rubberstamp Microsoft's standards they push through), IETF, IEEE, ANSI, etc.
Safari (probably a nightly version though) and Konqueror (started in 3.5.something) both also pass the Acid2 test, and Firefox 3.0 will also pass the test. I believe Opera was the first to pass it (or at least pass it in a non-beta release), however.
I've got a Wii, and via my observations, Opera on Wii renders the same as Opera on Windows, OS X, Linux, et al. Opera for phones, however, optimises the markup (via a proxy from Opera), images, and such, for small devices. You can see this in action via Opera for Windows, OS X, Linux, et al. Despite the differences, they are both powered by Opera's Presto renderring engine.
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Microsoft is a bit different in this regard because they seem to reinvent IE for any platform they make a version of it for; my guess would be that it's tied so deeply to the operating system that it makes more sense to make a completely new version than to upgrade an existing one.
In contrast, KDE (KHTML) and Apple (WebKit) also have a renderring engine that is used in both desktops (Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS X, etc.) and mobile devices (iPhone, many Nokia phones, others), and although it might not do as much (if at all) as Opera does in the case of modifying the markup to be better for small screens, it does a great job as well in parsing the markup and displaying it properly.
And for information parity, Mozilla's Gecko renderring engine is also being worked on for a mobile device web browser called Minimo, and although it's still pretty much alpha softwore, it's chugging along smoothly. The only thing I can complain about with it so far is that it's only for the latest version of Windows CE (or you can use it with Linux if you can install Linux on your PDA/smart phone if it doesn't already run Linux), and the only PDA I have is an old Toshiba e335 with PocketPC 2002, and I can't even install Linux on it.
Very nice list; how about another list that details the annoyances and horrible attributes of web browsers? If we were to supercede the web browser for some new web platform that includes all the good things you mentioned, I can think of at least one thing that should definitely be included: standards compliance or bust. Make it so that an invalid page fails to parse and display so that web developers and designers can learn to code properly. XHTML/HTML and CSS (much less in magnitude, however) are the most bastardised standards I can think of, but when it comes to similar XML-based standards (in the case of XHTML), we don't have programs that accept invalid markup for: SVG, MathML, ODF, RSS, Atom, RDF, other metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core), and pretty much every other XML-based standard. It seems as though web developers can follow standards and use semantic markup when it comes to their news feeds in RSS or Atom, but when it comes to the web page itself, we get tag soup, invalid markup, and hacks upon hacks to try and make XHTML/CSS a page layout or typesetting program.
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